Ron Paul Opposes Armed Guards In Schools

Says NRA plan would expand government

Rep. Ron Paul doesn't agree with the National Rifle Association's call to put armed guards in every school. The Texas Republican, who retires after next week, says in a statement on his congressional website that "government security is just another kind of violence."

"Do we really want to live in a world of police checkpoints, surveillance cameras, metal detectors, X-ray scanners, and warrantless physical searches?" Paul wrote.

"We see this culture in our airports: witness the shabby spectacle of once proud, happy Americans shuffling through long lines while uniformed TSA agents bark orders. This is the world of government provided 'security,' a world far too many Americans now seem to accept or even endorse. School shootings, no matter how horrific, do not justify creating an Orwellian surveillance state in America."

And officials in a country invoked by NRA leaders in the armed guards-in-schools debate are taking issue with the plan.

Appearing on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, NRA honcho LaPierre said: "Israel had a whole lot of school shootings, until they did one thing. They said we're going to stop it and they put armed security in every school and they have not had a problem since then."

But Yigal Palmor, spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said the situation in Israel was "fundamentally different" from that in the United States, reports the New York Daily News.

"We didn't have a series of school shootings, and they had nothing to do with the issue at hand in the United States. We had to deal with terrorism," said Palmor.

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Dr. paul is correct, we have too much goverment as it is,WHY make it bigger. That said, most of our problems are people behaviours and though we try to legislate behaviour it will never be 100% effective.

@hwyangel you are absolutely right!! They are no better than our children. Also, if this was the fact before the murders it may not have happened. Have anyone ever heard of a massacre in private scools?

I also believe in parent responsibility. We are talking about guns purchased by adults. I was just now talking to a guy who was telling me about his friends son who had gotten hold of a gun and shot someone with it. He was explaining that the kid did not understand the seriousness of what he was doing. He (the kid) thought it was a game. It seems some people really don't know the impact the violence from video games and T.V. has on children. It may seem harmless enough but once this trash permeates the mind and heart it doesn't just magically disappear.

Ron Paul does not believe in the military, protecting our children, nothing. I love all of his fiscal policies, they were the best of the bunch of Republican presidential candidates. However, his beliefs that we should not invest in the military and protecting the U.S. and then also him not believing in protecting our innocent little children give me great pause about this man.

"However, his beliefs that we should not invest in the military and protecting the U.S. and then also him not believing in protecting our innocent little children give me great pause about this man. " To say he does not want to invest in the military is an outright lie. He just thinks we should follow the Constitution and defend our country.

Well it probably won't surprize you, or maybe it will, that in both 2008 and 2012 I would have voted repub if he had been choosen, for the very things you dislike. His support for the fourth amendment and his liberty adgenda, his non-interventionist foreign polices, and his willingness to cut military pork.

I'm going to miss Ron Paul. One of the few politicians that actually wanted to serve for the best interest of the people instead of himself. Saw the world for what it was, stated his opinion without wavering, and was able to actually back his arguments up. Ron Paul is a true patriot.

I could give a shit less about Republicans or Democrats and the bullshit that comes with each party. I vote for the man and his stance on the issues. If that means "wasting" my vote then so be it. When everyone else is bitching about the place this country is headed I'll simply point out they only have themselves to blame for their stupid bipartisan loyalty.

@marine1 Oh, I don't delude nyself about that. Problem is it is so hard and expensive for an alternative to these two parties to emerge. There have been three sufficient to change the election since 1980 (anderson, perot, nader) but the last that won was Theodore Roosvelt...

@PNWest The loss of his mom may have been a good thing. If she hadn't made the guns accessible to him tge kids would probably be alive today. I blame her more then him or anyone else. If you have a mentally unbalanced son you keep the guns locked up, unloaded, and the ammo under lock and key in a seperate place. If you need one for self defense keep it with you. His mom was an idiot. Needed guns to protect herself? It was her own gin that killed her.

@PNWest - He could have gotten a gun through some other means, illegally most likely. However, if he was intent on getting a gun he would have gotten one. Too bad there wasn't a counter force of good to send him to the devil when he tried to use those guns.

I want to put every single person who is for gun control in prison. That's right, in jail. I'd make the COs in the prison of their choice. However, no guns. I'd like to see how long they'd go before they understood the need to be armed. For every nut we catch and can lock up, there's 2 or 3 hiding behind a tree hugging lawyer that we couldn't lock up.

Let's free the good guys to be good and put the fear of God into the bad guys.

Even with drug pushers and child predators, security for our children is very late in coming. It's offensive that children are not considered at least as valuable as government offices, shopping malls, or parades.

@marine1 - Criminals always want to kill someone, and every society will have its share of criminals. The rest of us are peace loving and don't want to harm each other at all. However, any sane person would recognize no matter how loving a society we are, there are those who don't share our values. Arming the good guys is not about wanting to kill anyone, it's about recognizing that even though we obey the law, it doesn't mean others will as well. You were a marine so I know you know better than me how evil this world can be.

why cant firemen like my dad be armed, they are depended on smart enough to drive a ten ton truck through red lights at their discretion, get put in more dangerous situations than police, albeit not criminally. they should be offerd the same training as policemen and take the same gun firing tests.

the NRA has propsed sence the school shootings haveing armed gaurds in every school , now as far as that is consirned I think the Fedural Govermment should stay out of it and the schools should be allowed to put armed guards as in there schools if they feel its aproprete but I Dount think that the guards should be hired or reqired by the Feds and I am also against the Assult weapons ban and the ammo bans and I think every ones right to bear arms should be protected I think that Teatchers should also be allowed to carry fire arms in the elementroy middle and Highschools and I and I doun't think that Mental heath services should be reqired by fedral govermment schools or any other levl of govermment and as far as haveing armed guards in every school is consrined I think that should be more of a free marked deseaion and if theres going to be any govermment involvement is , in this matter it should be at the Local state and or County levl the federal govermment should stay out of this matter and foces more on protecteing the right to bear arms as opose to restricting it

We do not need extra government employees in every school for protection. Each school currently has at least 10 or more employees capable and willing to defend themselves and the students. Also a single guard would be the first target; two would be more a deterrent but three would be more optimal. The bigger the threat to a nut the less success for the nut. Let the school employees protect themselves and kids.

We don't need armed guards at schools. We need to rebuild our families and communities to reform and help kids like this who slip through the cracks before they turn into someone who would slaughter children.

I think that this wouldn't be a problem if we would change the penalties for heinous crimes. for an example the next person who kill someone we do the same to them. Let it be known that's the penalty then the next man/woman will think twice if it's worth it or not. The round about way is doing this with the guards, but what if they take this as a challenge. Think about it Americans thinking is way different that Israelite's